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NOORANI'S NOTES

 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced updated immigration
enforcement priorities
 on
Thursday, reports Maria Sacchetti of The Washington Post
. "We
will prioritize for apprehension and removal noncitizens who are a
threat to our national security, public safety, and border security,"
the memo states. 

"Are we going to spend the time apprehending and removing the farmworker
who is breaking his or her back to pick fruit that we all put on our
tables?" Mayorkas said. "Because if we pursue that individual, we will
not be spending those same resources on somebody who does, in fact,
threaten our safety. And that is what this is about." 

Our take, including a law enforcement perspective, here
.  

Meanwhile, Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports at CBS News
 that
an appeals court Thursday allowed the administration to continue
using the pandemic-era Title 42 to expel migrants at the
border. Per August Customs and Border Protection
 data,
among the 86,000 migrants traveling as families whom border
officials encountered, roughly 20 percent were expelled. (The
percentage is far higher among single adults.)  

"[T]he outcry over Title 42 has intensified in recent days as the
Biden administration has used the policy to expel thousands of Haitians
 encountered
along the southern border," writes Montoya-Galvez. 

And a reminder that up to 80,000 unused green cards for foreign
workers are set to expire today, absent action from Congress,
reports Michelle Hackman for The Wall Street Journal
. 

For the big picture on where things stand, listen to Terry
Gross's Fresh Air NPR
 interview
with The Atlantic's Caitlin Dickerson.  

Welcome to Friday's edition of Noorani's Notes. If you have a
story to share from your own community, please send it to me
at [email protected]
.  

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**AFGHAN AID** - The continuing resolution Congress passed
Thursday includes $6.3 billion in supplemental funding for Afghan
resettlement, as well as benefits for Afghan parolees who were admitted
to the U.S. under humanitarian parole
. (Our
statement is here.)
 Earlier
in the day, senators rejected a proposal to curtail assistance, Luke
Broadwater of The New York Times
 reports. Recent
polls show strong support across the board for resettling
Afghans who helped the U.S. military: Vox and Data for Progress
 found
that 74 percent of likely voters - including 66 percent of Republicans
- are in favor, Nicole Narea reports for Vox
. Although
support was lower for other groups, especially among Republicans, our
own recent polling
 indicates that Americans
across party lines agree that the U.S. should have a legal, secure way
to offer welcome to people from oppressed or war-torn countries,
such as Afghanistan.  

Here are this morning's local stories of welcome:  

* With the help of the Refugee Empowerment Center
, an Afghan family of eight will
temporarily stay in a fully furnished home of an Airbnb in Omaha,
Nebraska. (Michelle Bandur, KETV 7
) 

* Central Massachusetts residents are among those across the state
forming "Neighborhood Support Teams (NST)"
and collaborating with Ascentria Care Alliance
to assist Afghan evacuees. (Anoushka Dalmia, Telegram & Gazette
) 

* A veteran-led group in Chicago named "Project Dynamo" welcomed 59
children and their families on Thursday and is
assisting refugees with housing. (Natalie Bomke, FOX 32
) 

* The Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico,
hosts weekly movie nights for Afghans, put on by the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops and Operation Allies Welcome. (Nicole
Maxwell, Alamogordo Daily News
) 

'THE PASTOR'S HELP' - Miriam Jordan of The New York Times
 explains
how a desperate phone call from the southern border transformed
into a church's full-blown effort to support nine Haitians. Thanks
to the generosity of Haitian American pastor Rooldy Alexandre and
members of the Beersheba Adventist Church in Philadelphia, these
families were able to secure temporary housing. "Since arriving, the
church has had to help us with absolutely everything," said Josue
Alexis, who called Pastor Alexandre from the border after listening
to his sermons from a Panama refugee camp. "I look forward to
managing on my own, without depending on others. There are other people
arriving who are going to need the pastor's help."

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RANSOM - In a powerful feature at NBC News
,
Juan Cooper of Noticias Telemundo Investiga gets an inside
look at the kidnapping of migrants and the ransom their families are
being forced to pay. In interviews with 32 migrants kidnapped from
2019 to 2021 in Mexico and the United States, relatives explained how
they paid "$1,500 to $5,000 as ransom to different cartels or criminal
gangs for each of kidnapped migrants." Denis Sanabria sold everything
he could to help save his brother David and niece Ximena, who were
kidnapped en route from Honduras. "For a moment, we felt that
everything was finished ... but there is always a great God who can do
anything," Denis said upon receiving his family at the Nashville
airport. 

**TRUCKS, TURKEYS AND PIGS** - Labor shortages made worse by
Britain's restrictive immigration policies are affecting many
aspects of British society. Britain's financial sector is
calling for visa leniency, reports Huw Jones of Reuters
. A truck
driver shortage is causing concerns about gasoline supplies, such
that Britain's doctors and other health care workers "could be put
up in hotels to ensure they can get to work," Chloe Taylor reports
for CNBC
. James
Davey of Reuters
 adds
that farmers may have to slaughter hundreds
of thousands of pigs because of its butcher shortage, and there
are other farm worries: Karla Adam and William Booth of The
Washington Post
 write
that the British government has promised an additional 5,500 temporary
visas for poultry workers for fear "of a holiday shortage of turkeys." 

Thanks for reading, 

Ali 

 

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